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COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL

by matsz on 10/23/23, 7:51 PM with 43 comments

• by SonOfLilit on 10/23/23, 10:36 PM

  Having written some COBOL while consulting for a bank:

  The language is not interesting at all without the ecosystem, which is this fully flushed alien alternative universe of computation. If you want to dive into COBOL, don't try to run it on x86, get yourself a mainframe account.

• by digitalsankhara on 10/24/23, 5:58 AM

  I'd have called it COBWEB :-)

  I think there was also COBOLSCRIPT (sp) a few years ago, which, IIRC was a COBOL -> JS converter.

• by looneysquash on 10/24/23, 1:05 AM

  COBOL on Crutches would be a better (worse) name.

• by ChrisArchitect on 10/24/23, 2:37 AM

  (2013)?

  Some discussion from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950646

• by lefessan on 10/24/23, 9:19 AM

  Who said COBOL was not trendy ?

  A new version of the COBOL ISO standard was released this year (January 2023)

  A brand new stable release 3.2 of the free open-source compiler GnuCOBOL was released this summer (July 2023)

  OCamlPro is working on SuperBOL, a COBOL LSP (Language Server Protocol) for Vscode, written in OCaml...

• by ngcc_hk on 10/24/23, 12:40 PM

  Why not actually run a mainframe and do a bit cobol programming.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976082

• by Alifatisk on 10/24/23, 12:12 PM

  What a funny title, is it inspired of Ruby on Rails? Like how Rust on Nails does.

• by xiaodai on 10/24/23, 11:47 AM

  Reminds me of that jade teen video with a grandpa.

• by alexjplant on 10/23/23, 10:00 PM

  So it's COBOL on Cogs [1] but for real?

  [1] http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

• by nathell on 10/23/23, 9:53 PM

  Written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a co-leader of a Polish political party (Razem) that’s set to enter the government following the recent election.

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg